Richard Genée

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Richard Genée

Richard Genée , actually Franz Friedrich Richard Genée, (born February 7, 1823 in Danzig ; † June 15, 1895 in Baden near Vienna ) was a German-Austrian librettist , playwright and composer .

Life

The son of the opera singer Friedrich Genée (1795–1856), like his younger brother Rudolf Genée, attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin. He first studied medicine, then music and took composition lessons from Adolf Stahlknecht (1813–1887) in Berlin. After his father took over the management of the Danzig City Theater in 1841, Richard Genée was hired there in 1843 as ballet conductor and second music director. From 1848 he was a theater conductor in Reval , Riga , 1852/1853 in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Danzig, 1857 in Mainz , 1864/65 at the Prague State Theater , then at the Schwerin Court Operaas well as at the Hoogduitse Schouwburg Amsterdam , the German theater in Amsterdam .

Richard Genée was friends with Friedrich von Flotow and from 1868 worked for a decade as Kapellmeister at the Theater an der Wien . Together with Franz Zell ( operetta company Zell and Genée ) he wrote a large number of libretti for operettas by Johann Strauss , Carl Millöcker , Franz von Suppè , Carl Michael Ziehrer and others, including Der Bettelstudent . He wrote the libretto for Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss together with Karl Haffner .

In 1876 he composed the operetta Der Seekadett . In the game of chess, an opening trap, the sea ​​cadet mat , is named after this operetta.

Genée spent the winter months in Berlin, the summer months in Vienna, Tullnerbach or in his house in Baden  - where he died “during a stay at a spa” and, according to Protestant belief, was buried on June 17, 1895 in the city cemetery. Among the mourners were Strauss, Millöcker and Karl Komzák .

His sister was the theater actress and opera singer Ottilie Genée .

In 1951 the Geneegasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named in his honor. Other names of traffic areas honoring Richard Genée can be found in Baden near Vienna (since 1995) and Tullnerbach.

Works

  • Polyphen or An Adventure in Martinique 1856
  • The violinist from Tyrol 1857
  • The love ring around 1860
  • A tragedy in 1860
  • A fool's dream 1861
  • Italiänische Salat 1861, Musikalischer Schwank
  • The dress rehearsal in 1862
  • Der Musikfeind 1862, Operetta, (Music: Richard Genée)
  • The Gentlemen of the Livery 1862
  • The Talismans 1863
  • Rosita 1864
  • The Black Prince 1866
  • The pigtail cutters 1866
  • At the rune stone 1868
  • Schwefeles, the agent of hell, 1869
  • A concert rehearsal in 1870
  • The Witches' Sabbath in 1870
  • The Singer with Three Tones 1871
  • Carnival in Rome 1873, together with Josef Braun, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Johann Strauss )
  • Die Fledermaus , 1874, together with Carl Haffner, Operetta in 3 acts, (Music: Johann Strauss)
  • Cleopatra or Through Three Millennia, 1875
  • Cagliostro in Vienna 1875, together with F. Zell , operetta in 3 acts, (music: Johann Strauss)
  • Fatinitza 1876, together with F. Zell, operettas in 3 acts, (music: Franz von Suppè )
  • The sea cadet 1876, together with F. Zell, operettas in 3 acts, (music: Richard Genée)
  • Castles in the air 1876
  • Nanon, the landlady of the Golden Lamb 1877, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Richard Genée)
  • In the wonderland of the pyramids 1877
  • The last of the Mohicans 1878
  • Die Fornarina 1879, together with F. Zell and Moritz West , operetta in 3 acts, (music: Carl Zeller )
  • Boccaccio 1879, together with F. Zell, operettas in 3 acts, (music: Franz von Suppè)
  • Countess Dubarry 1879, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Carl Millöcker )
  • The Queen 's Lace Shawl 1880, together with Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen, Operetta in 3 acts, (Music: Johann Strauss)
  • Apajune, the Aquarius 1880, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Carl Millöcker)
  • Donna Juanita 1880, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Franz von Suppè)
  • Nisida 1880
  • Der Gascogner 1881, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Franz von Suppè)
  • Rosina 1881
  • The Merry War 1881, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Johann Strauss)
  • The begging student 1882, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Carl Millöcker)
  • One night in Venice 1883, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Johann Strauss)
  • Die Afrikareise, 1883, together with Moritz West, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Franz von Suppè)
  • Gasparone 1884, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Carl Millöcker)
  • A Made Woman 1885
  • Twins 1885
  • The pirates 1886
  • The Vice Admiral 1886, together with F. Zell, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Carl Millöcker)
  • The Thirteen 1887
  • The Hunt for Happiness 1888, together with Bruno Zappert, operetta in 3 acts, (music: Franz von Suppè)
  • Signora Vedetta 1892
  • The Watchful Sentinel 1893
  • Friend Felix 1894

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Braitner Strasse 5 (house has a memorial plaque). - Böheimer: Straßen & Gassen , p. 99

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Genée † .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , June 16, 1895, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  2. ^ Richard Genée † .. In:  Die Presse , supplement, June 16, 1895, p. 14 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  3. ^ Böheimer: Straßen & Gassen , p. 98.
  4. ↑ Genée's funeral ceremony. In:  Die Presse , June 18, 1895, p. 9 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  5. ↑ a b Richard Genée † .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , June 19, 1895, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bbb.
  6. ^ Böheimer: Straßen & Gassen , p. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Genée, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genée, Franz Friedrich Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librettist, playwright and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1895
Place of death Baden near Vienna